Feeling sexy in a body my culture deems unsexy, while also believing that body should dutifully service someone else’s pleasure doesn’t make me want to slip on a silk teddy and give it the old college try. In a small examination room at my doctor’s office, I sit on the narrow table wearing a papery […]
Curvy is just who I am. I have the same kind of body that my mother had, that my grandmothers had. And I take good care of it. I can’t tell you exactly how it happened. I wish I could tell you there is a magic solution out there that could make all women accept […]
The intimacy I experienced with my body and my developing baby during pregnancy was perhaps the most compelling transformation I have ever known. Why would I want to erase that? A close friend of mine from graduate school was in town over the weekend, someone I hadn’t seen since I was mid-way through my pregnancy. […]
This originally appeared on Everyday Feminism. Republished here with permission. One of the first things I heard upon announcing my pregnancy was: So, do you think you’ll gain a lot of weight? Based on my pre-pregnancy weight, I was healthily supposed to gain 25-35 pounds during those nine months. When I called to report to my […]
